Pipe bench



Jan. 4,1927. 1,613,495 M. J'. WIRTH PIPE BENCH Filed April 26, 1926 Inventor Attorney IIII I- Patented Jan. 4, 1927.

MARCELL JOSEPH WIRTH, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

PIPE BENCH.

Application filed April 26, 1926. Serial No. 104,726.

My present invention pertains to means for supporting pipes incident to work thereon; and it contemplates the provision of a bench which is light in weight and yet rigid and strong, and is susceptible of being readily disassembled for storage or shipment and to be expeditiously and easily set u for use when desired and tightened to ren er it stiff and strong.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification:

Figure 1 is a .side elevation showing the bench of my invention as set up ready for use.

Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same Figure 3 is a detail top plan view showing a portion of the bench.

Figure 4; is a fragmentary transverse sec tion on an enlargedscale.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary horizontal section, on an enlarged scale, showing one corner portion of the bench.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

Among other elements my novel bench comprises a top member 1 with upstanding side flanges 2. The said top member 1 is equipped at 3 with .a pipe rest, and .at its end remote from the said rest 3 the top member is provided with appropriate means, designated by 4, to facilitate the connection of a vise, not shown, to the top member. Riveted to the top member 1, as designated by 5, are cross bars ,6 which are arranged adjacent to though spaced from the ends of the top member 1; the said cross bars 6 are provided at their ends with reduced and threaded portions 7 designed to receive lever nuts 8, best shown in Figure 4.

In addition to the said top member 1 my novel bench comprises legs 9, longitudinal brace members 10, and transverse brace members 11. The legs 9 are of channel cross section, as best shown in Figure 5, and the said legs are shouldered as designated by 12 and are therefore provided with lower outer portions 18 and upper inner portions 14, Figure 2. Said lower portions 13 are provided at their lower ends with base flanges 13*. The said upper portions 1 1 of the legs are apertured at 15 to receive the threaded portions 7 of the bars 6, and it will be noted that each 'leg 13 is provided in its upper portion and between its side flanges with apertured lugs 16 flanged as slrow n and riveted at 17 to the legs. The said lugs 16 serve to receive the bolt portions 7 of the cross bars 6 and in that way reinforce the connection of the legs 13 to the cross bars 6 and the top member 1, and said lugs 16 also afford a solid bearing for the lever nuts. 8 when said nuts 8 are turned tight on the bolt portions 7. Manifestly when the nuts 8 are tightened as described, the bench will be rendered rigid and strong. It will. also be understood from the drawings that each leg of the bench is provided on its lower portion with apertured lugs 1O and 11*, the lugs 10 being designed to receive hooks 20 on the longitudinal brace members 10, and the lugs 11* being designed to receive hooks 21 on the transverse brace members 11, the said hooks being, of course, removable from their respective lugs when it is desired to disassemble the parts'of the bench. I would also have it here understood that in the present and preferred embodiment of my invention the brace members 10 and 11 are of L-form in cross-section.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that while rigid and strong when set up ready for use, my novel bench is light in weight and is inexpensive, and yet the bench is susceptible of being readily taken apart to facilitate storage or shipment and is adapted to be as quickly and conveniently assembled and tightened to render it fit for use.

I have explicitly described the preferred embodiment of m invention in order to impart an exact un erstanding of the said embodiment. I do not desire, however, to be understood as limiting myself to the precise construction disclosed, my invention being defined by my appended claims within the scope of which modifications may be madewithout departure from my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is:

1. A bench comprising a top member with upstanding side flanges, cross bars arranged under and fixedly connected to the top member and provided with reduced and threaded end portions, legs of channel cross-section arranged at oppositesides of the top member and having apertures receiving the said reduced and threaded portions of the cross bars and also havingintermediate offset or shoulder portion whereby their lower portions are disposed outwardly beyond their upper portions, said legs also having apertured lugs therein and fixed thereto and receiving the reduced and threaded portions of the cross bars, and further having on their lower portions apertured lugs disposed at right angles to each other, nuts mounted onthe reduced andthreaded portionso't' the cross bars and arranged at the outer sides oft'he apeitured lugs in the legs, transverse braces having end hooks disposed in apertureol lugs of the lower portion of the legs, and longitudinal brace members havingend hooks disposed in the other apertured lugs of the lower portion of the legs.

' '2. A'bench comprising a top member with upstanding sidefiai'iges, cross bars arranged under and fixedly connected to the top memberand provided'ivi'th reduced and threaded end portions, legs of channel cross-section arranged at opposite sides of the top member and having [apertures receiving the said reduced and threaded portions of the cross bars and also having intermediate olfset or shoulder portion whereby their lower portions are disposed outwardly beyond their upper portions, said legs also having apertured lugs therein and fixed thereto and receiving the reduced and threaded portions of the cross bars, and further having on their lower portions apertured lugs disposed at right angles to each other, nuts mounted on the reduced and threaded portions of the cross bars and arranged at the outer sides of the apertured lugs in the legs, transverse braces having end hooks disposed in apertu r'ed lugs of the legs, and longitudinal brace members having end hooks disposed in the other ape'it-ured lugs of the legs; each of the said legs being provided at its lower end with an outwardly extend ing base flange.

3. A bench comprising a top member, cross bars fixed to the said top member adjacent to the ends thereof and arranged at the underside of the top member and having reduced and threaded end portions, channel legs ape'rt-ured to receive the said reduced and threaded end portions of the cross bars and containing and having fixed to them apertured lugs receiving said reduced and threaded end portions, nuts mounted on said portions and adapted 'to be set against said apertureddugs, and transverse and longitudinal brace members interposed between and detachably connected with the legs.

MARCELL JOSEPH WVIRTI-I.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. 

